Improvement in seats for vehicles



E. L. BRADLEY.

Seats for Vehicles.

Patented Dec.15,I874;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD L. BRADLEY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- THIRD OF HIS RIGHT TO WM. A. CLARK, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPRCVEMENT IN SEATS FOR VEHICLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,673, dated December 15, 1874; application filed May 10, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD L. BRADLEY of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Carriage-Seat and Body- Oorner; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, iu-

Figure 1, a perspective view of one of the angles, looking from the inside; and in Fig. 2, a longitudinal section.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of that class of carriage seats and bodies in which the angles are rounded.

Heretofore these have been formed by the insertion of corners constructed from a separate piece of wood, the grain running transversely to the sides, or have been bent. The first makes a very weak corner and one liable to check, and the other is an expensive operation, as, when a flaring side is desirable, a large amount of lumber is required proportionate to that actually used.

By my invention these difficulties are entirely overcome; and it consists in the construction of a metallic corner, consisting of an outside and inside plate, forming a chamber between the two, into the edges of which the side and end are secured.

Ais one side or end; B, another side or end, which, if extended, would form a right angle,

as denoted in broken lines, Fig. 2. To round this corner or angle I construct a curved metallic piece, 0, made hollow, so as to form the chambers a b, either by striking up wrought metal or casting from a suitable pattern, and of the form required for the corner, and with or without the lugs D'at the top, and E at the bottom. Into the respective chambersa b I fit the end of the parts A B, and there secure them by rivets d, or other suitable device, which firmly binds the two parts A B together.

The outer surface of the metal may be finished flush with that of the wood and painted in the usual manner, so that when the carriage is complete the metal does not appear; and I have produced a corner which will not check or yield, and at a comparatively trifling expense.

I am aware that a patent was issued to L. W. Wolfe, May 12, 1868, in which a cornerpiece is shown having dovetailed recesses in its opposite ends, to receive, correspondinglyshaped ends formed on the back and end pieces of the seat; and I do not claim such;

I claim as my invention The metallic corner-pieces G for carriage seats or bodies, constructed so that the end and side pieces can be inserted endwise into the cavities a b, and secured by means of rivets or screws, as set forth.

EDWARD L. BRADLEY.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. SHUMWAY, A. J. TIBBITS. 

